Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste Aesthetics in Religious Life

Name: Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste Aesthetics in Religious Life
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ISBN: 9780195158724

ISBN-10: 0195158725

ISBN-13: 9780195158724

Edition: 2003

Authors: Frank Burch Brown

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Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs." While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of…

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List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Prologue: Religious Taste



Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste



Art in Christian Traditions



From the Love of Religion to the Love of Art



The Taste for Art and the Thirst for God



Kitsch, Sacred and Profane: The Question of Quality



Ecumenical Taste: The Case of Music



Making Sacred Places, and Making Places Sacred



Styles and Stages of Faith and Art I: The Next Stage



Styles and Stages of Faith and Art II: Practicing Christianity Artfully


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Index